Teach your students Music Braille Code with our one-of-a-kind curriculum developed by Christine Short. This exciting product focuses on reading, playing, and memorizing measures through the use of a soprano recorder.

This dual media coloring book will take you on an adventure to discover the beautiful colors and creatures found in your own back yard!

The Wilson Reading System (WRS) is a research-based reading and writing program. It is a complete curriculum for teaching decoding and encoding (spelling), beginning with phoneme segmentation.

• Print-Braille Magnetic Tile Set (UEB) – $69
• Student Reader One, Braille Kit (UEB) – $339
• Student Reader Two, Braille Kit (UEB) – $289
• Student Reader Three, Braille Kit (UEB) – $249
• Print-Braille Card Set (UEB) – $269
• WADE Sheets (UEB) – $39

Who are the APH Scholars? We talked with each of them about their passion for the field and the important work they are doing. We’re grateful for our scholars and the EOTs who nominated them.

Nominations for the 2020-2021 APH Scholars are now being accepted! Do you know someone deserving of the title APH Scholar? If so, teachers, contact your EOT. EOTs can now submit scholar nominations. Nominations are due by February 28th. If you have questions about the nomination process or would like a nomination form, please contact Leanne Grillot at lgrillot@aph.org or Cindy Amback at camback@aph.org.

APH partnered with Portland State University to host an OpenStreetMap “Mapathon” at the PSU campus on February 3rd. Participants from the local OSM mapping group, university students and professors, and civic leaders, including Smart City PDX, came together to learn about mapping for accessibility and to contribute to the PSU campus data stored in OpenStreetMap. This mapping work will support the seamless wayfinding study conducted during the Mobility Matters Summit in March at PSU.

The National Federation for the Blind is now accepting applications for the STEM Summer Program for blind or low vision students in grades 9-12. The NFB Engineering Quotient (EQ) Program will take place June 21-27, 2020 at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul. Accepted students participate in hands-on engineering lessons and activities. The online application (due March 29, 2020) and more information can be found here: https://www.nfb.org/programs-services/national-center-blind-youth-science/nfb-eq

Students in grades 7-12 who are passionate about space exploration and the power of DNA are invited to apply to the Genes in Space contest. To participate, individual students or groups of up to four people must design and submit an experiment involving DNA that addresses potential problems that can arise in space – the winning experiment will be performed on the International Space Station! For more information and the application, visit: https://www.genesinspace.org/us-contest/

From the Migel Library: Selected Articles from the Long Cane News. Seeing Eye Inc., 1976.

This volume compiles more than seventy-five unique articles on Orientation and Mobility. Familiar names and Hall of Fame inductees such as Loyal E. Apple, Stanley Suterko, Fred Gissoni, C. Warren Bledsoe, and Rod Kossick authored these articles for The Long Cane News – a publication for which very few back issues existed even in 1976. Due to a high demand from students in the O&M field, the articles were tracked down and republished in this volume, which is itself very difficult to find.  This item has been digitized for Internet Archive.

Migel Library new acquisitions include:

• Malini, J Sujatha, and R Ranganathan. Training Children with Visual Impairment: Training Programme for Low Vision and Visual Impairment. 2020.
• Manduchi, Roberto, and Sri Kurniawan. Assistive Technology for Blindness and Low Vision. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
• McLinden, Mike, et al. Learning through Touch: Supporting Learners with Multiple Disabilities and Vision Impairment through a Bioecological Systems Perspective. Routledge, 2020.
• Paulson, William R. Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Blind in France. Princeton University Press, 2016.
• Romero-Fresco, Pablo. Accessible Filmmaking: Integrating Translation and Accessibility into the Filmmaking Process. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
• Tilley, Heather. Blindness and Writing: from Wordsworth to Gissing. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
• Wilson, James. The Autobiography of the Blind James Wilson: with a Preliminary Essay on His Life, Character, and Writings, as Well as on the Present State of the Blind. Ward, 1856.

The APH Migel Collection is one of the largest collections of nonmedical information related to visual impairment in the world. Although the collection does not circulate, an ongoing digitization effort means APH will make materials available online: https://archive.org/details/aphmigel. The digitized texts are available in a variety of accessible formats, including DAISY, Kindle, EPUB, PDF, and read-aloud. Contact Library staff:resource@aph.org; 800-223-1839, ext. 705.

APH is conducting field testing for the Accessible Code & Go Mouse Activity Set. The activity set allows kids to build mazes, and then use the coding cards to create a step-by-step path for Colby, the Programmable Robot Mouse. The coding cards have been adapted into tactile graphics and have been text-described, too. The child programs the sequence of steps to get Colby to find the cheese. The accessible Code & Go Mouse Activity Set builds skills in following tactile graphics, reading and following written instructions, and critical thinking.

Testing will begin in April and will require a few hours of commitment, along with the completion of a short survey for each student who tests the product. If you are involved in K-6 STEM/STEAM instruction and are available to test this product with one or more students, we want to hear from you!